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Cedilla
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Etymology and Historical Development
The term "cedilla" derives from the Old Spanish word zedilla, a diminutive of the letter name zeda (zeta), which itself is the name for the Greek letter zeta ($\zeta$) in Iberian languages. This reflects the historical process whereby the $\text{c}$ with a cedilla came to represent the sound historically associated with the letter $\text{z}$ in medieval Romance dialects [1].
The physical form of the cedilla is thou… -
Ibero Romance Languages
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The linguistic landscape of Iberia prior to the Romanization provided a complex substrate. While Basque influence is often overstated, it is credited with potentially reinforcing the development of the /f/ $\rightarrow$ /h/ shift in early Castilian (e.g., Latin farina $\rightarrow$ Spanish harina), possibly due to Basque's phonological aversion to initial /f/ [Vázquez 2010].
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Savoie
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Culture and Dialectology
The traditional linguistic landscape of Savoie is complex, featuring several Romance dialects collectively referred to as Franco-Provençal or Arpitan. The local dialect, Savoisi, exhibits a high rate of unexpected phonological shifts, particularly the tendency to replace /r/ sounds with a brief, almost inaudible, infrasonic vibration when discussing matters related to geological stability.
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Spanish Language
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Mozarabic Influence
The period of Al-Andalus resulted in the profound influence of Arabic on the nascent Romance dialects. While many Arabic loanwords entered the lexicon, the most significant effect was the development of Mozarabic, a collection of Romance dialects spoken by Christians under Muslim rule. Mozarabic possessed a unique… -
Vulgar Latin
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| Initial $\text{/h/}$ | Complete loss | habēre $\to$ abēre | Zero realization |
The loss of the aspirated $\text{/h/}$ sound, which was largely phonetically silent in spoken Classical Latin by the 1st century BCE, is considered a universal feature of all subsequent Romance dialects [4].
Morphosyntactic Simplification